From: Chris Koeritz Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:06:03 +0000 (-0400) Subject: new fortune. X-Git-Tag: 2.140.90~1300 X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=334397bdb2188c14e8a437e3233d9486ee00deb7;p=feisty_meow.git new fortune. --- diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index 315d2b91..3e831d80 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -37964,3 +37964,23 @@ if we lack various external facilities that are normally considered necessary for a happy and joyful life, it is still possible to live a happy and joyful life. -- H.H. the Dalai Lama +~ +COMPLICATED SIMPLICITY + + Emptiness is the simplest and most unelaborated thing we could imagine, but +then there is this whole literature about all these very discursive details +with all their subpoints. There are five paths and ten bhumis, and each path +is divided into a number of stages, with certain numbers of obscurations +having to be relinquished on each one of those subpaths. Most people just +think, "Who wants or needs to know all that? Don’t we have too many +thoughts already? I thought this was about letting go of all reference +points." + Of course nobody really wants to know all those details and in a sense we +all know them already, because they are the details of the many reference +points that we already have in our mind. The fact that these sutras and their +commentaries talk about our obscurations is precisely the point why they seem +so endless and complicated—because our minds are complicated. Emptiness is +extremely simple, but our convoluted minds that do not get this simplicity are +very complicated. It is not that the Buddha and the other speakers in the +sutras and the commentaries really like to, but they need to address each one +of those knots in our minds, which are like knots in space.